Remember when the small group of dissenting media voices who challenged the Iraq War were proven right & then promoted? Yeah, neither do I.

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Exactly.

Were Jackie Collins still alive, she could write THE WORLD IS FULL OF FAT F**KS aka HOW UGLY MEN WITH UGLY IDEAS GET REWARDED.

It would revolve around human trash like Matthew Yglesias and Kevin Drum
who supported the Iraq War and get rewarded for it while all the
writers who stood against it are punished.

This has nothing to do with me. Yes, I spoke out against the Iraq War
beginning in Feb. of 2003 but I did not write about it. Nor do I need
to make a living from writing. Other people are less fortunate and they
told the truth but MOTHER JONES and other publications did not come
knocking.

And Matthew's human filth who was sired by human filth. A lousy father
who 'writes' screenplays by using the work of others and attacks Woody
Allen over the claims of Dylan Farrow while justifying his own work with
Roman Polanski. There is no dispute that Roman drugged and raped a
13-year-old girl. Working with rapists qualifies as a Yglesias family
trait.

It's not just the corporate media that refused to hold people
accountable, it's the so-called alternative media as well. MOTHER JONES
can find room in its pages for any number of questionable men -- yet
we're all supposed to see it as a 'win' that two bimbos run (ruin?) the
magazine.

Regarding the lack of accountability, last night, I noted the reality that, all this time later, Watergate remains a mystery.

This led some to insist otherwise.

Well what do you know, CBS NEWS' live coverage of Nixon announcing he was stepping down has held.

Of course, anyone alive then or who's researched the period would be
well aware that CBS refused to explore -- during that live coverage --
why Nixon was stepping down, they were too busy lauding him as a savior
who did what was right for the nation.

Roger Mudd, among others at CBS, didn't feel that was the way to go.

And people wrongly believe that mysteries were solved.

No, they weren't.

And they wrongly believe that John Dean was a truth teller.

No, he's a felon.

He's also a noted liar who could have cleared up things a long time ago
but he's fallen in love with the airbrushing of history that's allowed
him to pretend he's not a common thug whose actions were criminal and
outrageous and who should have spent a life behind bars but his
willingness to rat out others lower on the totem poll saved his own ass.

If we had accountability in this country, John Dean would be booed and hissed every time he showed his criminal face in public.

The government’s top law officer is going to court to demand the rejection of an attempt to prosecute Tony Blair over the Iraq war, the Guardian has learned.The planned intervention by the attorney general comes after a judge
ruled the former Labour prime minister had immunity from the attempt to
bring a criminal charge against him and that pursuing a prosecution
could “involve details being disclosed under the Official Secrets Act”.

The private prosecution relates to the 2003 Iraq war and seeks the
trial in a British court of then prime minister Tony Blair, the foreign
secretary Jack Straw, and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general at the time.

The
Attorney General's spokesman added: "It is not unusual for the Attorney
General to intervene in these sort of cases in order to represent the
public interest."Imran Khan, for Ribat, said his client was “baffled as to
why it is that despite the Chilcot report making it very clear that the
war was illegal, attempts are below made to prevent those responsible
from entering a court, let alone being prosecuted for what they did”.